Are these photographs really 102 years old? - CNN.com

1890 in glorious colour: the magic of photochromes – in pictures

Street food in the Strada del Porto in Naples, Italy. 1899. Photochromes are vibrant and nuanced prints hand-coloured from black-and-white negatives. Created using a process pioneered in the 1880s, these images offer a fascinating insight into the world when colour photography was still in its infancy.